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Lenoir N.C. Feb. 5th 1860 [corrected to 1861]
Dear Sir
Please excuse me for troubling you again with a letter on politics. I shall write in great haste as the mail will soon be closed. Events are hurrying to their [?consummation] with fearful rapidity. It has become apparent that the border slave states, including North Carolina and Tennessee, are willing to accept the [illegible]compromise. It has also become apparent that the North are willing to grant it; that a little delay is all that is needed in order that the awakened people of the North may oust the political leaders who have so grossly deceived them and give their sanction at the ballot box to that just and honorable compromise. But the country has scarcely time to begin to breathe easily in the dawn of returning peaceful counsels, when hope is again obscured by another dark cloud rising in the seceeded [sic] states. In the consummation of this compromise which would keep the border slave states in the Union, the seceeded [sic] states see the commerce of St. Louis and Louisville and Memphis and Nashville slipping from their grasp to enrich the seaports of the Union. If they can make the seaports of the Union

Lenoir N.C. Feb. 5th 1860 [corrected to 1861]
Dear Sir
Please excuse me for troubling you again with a letter on politics. I shall write in great haste as the mail will soon be closed. Events are hurrying to their [?consummation] with fearful rapidity. It has become apparent that the border slave states, including North Carolina and Tennessee, are willing to accept the [illegible]compromise. It has also become apparent that the North are willing to grant it; that a little delay is all that is needed in order that the awakened people of the North may oust the political leaders who have so grossly deceived them and give their sanction at the ballot box to that just and honorable compromise. But the country has scarcely time to begin to breathe easily in the dawn of returning peaceful counsels, when hope is again obscured by another dark cloud rising in the seceeded [sic] states. In the consummation of this compromise which would keep the border slave states in the Union, the seceeded [sic] states see the commerce of St. Louis and Louisville and Memphis and Nashville slipping from their grasp to enrich the seaports of the Union. If they can make the seaports of the Union